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European Master in Migration and Intercultural Relations

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2021,

In the 21st century, migration processes increasingly contribute to shaping societal contexts. At the same time, the presence of migrants, who bring new knowledge, experiences, languages and different perspectives to these contexts, emphasizes the relevance of (approaches to) intercultural relations and communication. Moreover, and along with increasingly accelerating tendencies of globalization, ...
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The Role of Universities in Innovation and Regional Development (RUNIN)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2020,

The Role of Universities in Innovation and Regional Development (RUNIN) is a European Training Network for Early-Stage Researchers (ESRs) in the field of science and innovation studies. The aim of the network is to train researchers on how universities contribute to innovation and economic growth in their regions through research seeking to examine how universities fulfill their third mission in r ...
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Triangulum: The Three Point Project / Demonstrate. Disseminate. Replicate. (Triangulum)

Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Jan 31, 2020,

The Triangulum project will demonstrate how a systems innovation approach based around the European Commission’s SCC Strategic Implementation Plan can drive dynamic smart city development. We will test the SIP across three lighthouse cities: Manchester, Eindhoven and Stavanger, which represent the main typologies of European cities. They will be complemented by our follower cities Prague, Leipzig ...
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Critical Reading and Awareness in Education

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

CONTEXT/BACKGROUNDSince the raise of the digital age at the beginning of the 2000, societies have been confronted with massive transformations in the way people communicate, get information and learn. These societal transformations have also influenced educational systems. It has been necessary for school authorities, schools and educational practitioners to take these rapid changes into considera ...
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BIM4PLACEMENT European key competences in building and construction

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

Building Information Modelling (BIM) can be defined as a process involving the generation and management of digital representations of physical and functional characteristics of places. BIM softwares are used to plan, design, construct, operate and maintain many kinds of buildings and infrastructures. In Europe BIM is becoming more and more studied in VET schools, VET courses and university course ...
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Innovative Learning Approaches for Implementation of Lean Thinking to Enhance Office and Knowledge Work Productivity

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

Erasmus+ Programme aims to increase skills and employability, as well as in implementing innovations in the field of education and training, and support transnational partnerships. In particular "Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices" is focused on collaborative projects aimed at development, sharing and transfer best practices and innovative approaches in the fields of edu ...
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Enhancing the Education and Wellbeing of Disadvantaged Toddlers through the development of training and materials to support Early Years Practitioners

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

The early years of a child’s life (birth—5) are a major determinant of future educational success. Those who start formal education at a disadvantage compared to their peers are likely to remain at a disadvantage throughout their life, and be in greater danger of economic and social exclusion. They are also more likely to contribute to the education drop-out rates the EU wishes to reduce, and les ...
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Project for higher education student and staff mobility between Programme Countries and Partner Countries

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2018,

This is a project for higher education student and staff mobility between Programme Countries and Partner Countries. Please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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Risk and Security Governance Studies within Baltic – Nordic Academic Community of Practice

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

Under the framework of the project we will develop a collaborative network of partner higher education institutions (HEIs) aiming to consolidate fragmented knowledge, information and expertise in the area of risk and security governance. Each partner HEI has already developed very specific competence in the field of risk assessment and security governance that could be tied and integrated into cur ...
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Space for Science – Implementing Innovations in Science Education

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

Space for Science- Implementing Innovation in Science Education is a cross-sectoral project of two universities and three schools. The project aims to find innovative and interdisciplinary approach for science education which give inspiration and enthusiasm for students, teachers and researchers alike. Our goal is to promote practical yet scientific methods translated into innovative team challeng ...
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LEAN: Training by doing and training on the go as effective approaches to lean manufacturing

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

LEAN project intends to meet Europe 2020 growth strategy priorities on employment and education. The project takes into account also the EU Roadmap "Opening up Education" (04/2013) enhancing education and skills development through new technologies and underlining "insufficient supply of quality digital contents across languages, subjects and needs" and "lack of teachers' skills for a real digital ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

This is a higher education student and staff mobility project, please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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Collaboration and Innovation for Better, Personalized and IT-Supported Teaching

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

Colibri will contribute to the Modernisation of European Higher Education by developing new and innovative teaching approaches, increase labour market relevance of education, and promote the take-up of innovative practices in education. Colibri will focus specifically on personalised learning, collaborative learning, and use of ICT. Moreover, Colibri is based on strengthening the link between comp ...
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Development and Implementation of Interactive Mobile E-learning Apps for European Nursing Education

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

Electronically supported learning tools have increasingly been accepted in higher education over the past few decades. A variety of new e-learning tools have been developed to serve students in their learning processes including podcasts, games and rich media e-compendiums. The current project addresses bachelor student nurses challenges and needs regarding; active learning, learning approaches, t ...
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Education for Data Intensive Science to Open New science frontiers (EDISON)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

The EDISON project will focus on activities to establish the new profession of ' Data Scientist', following the emergence of Data Science technologies (also referred to as Data Intensive or Big Data technologies) which changes the way research is done, how scientists think and how the research data are used and shared. This includes definition of the required skills, competences framework/profile, ...
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Project for higher education student and staff mobility between Programme Countries and Partner Countries

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: Jul 31, 2017,

This is a project for higher education student and staff mobility between Programme Countries and Partner Countries. Please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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Project for higher education student and staff mobility between Programme Countries and Partner Countries

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2017,

This is a project for higher education student and staff mobility between Programme Countries and Partner Countries. Please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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Peroxisomes: key to cell performance and health (PERFUME)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

The PERFUME (PERoxisome Formation, Function, MEtabolism) program is an interdisciplinary and intersectoral ITN providing state-of-the-art research training at the interface of medicine, plant and fungal biology. The PERFUME S&T specifically aims at unraveling the principles of peroxisome biology.Peroxisomes have been discovered relatively recently (in 1954). Consequently, the level of understandin ...
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Social sustainability / samfélagsleg sjálfbærni

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

Verkefnið nefnist "samfélagsleg sjálfbærni" eða Social sustainability og er í samstarfi fjögurra hópa frá Íslandi, Danmörku, Englandi og Noregi. Verkefnið og feril þess verður hannaður af Kaospiloterunum Björt Sigfinnsdóttur og Hilmari Guðjónssyni. Almennt er viðurkennt að núverandi framganga mannsins á jörðinni beri skýr merki ósjálfbærni. Verkefni jarðarbúa felst í því að breyta hugsun sinni og ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

This is a higher education student and staff mobility project, please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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Improving Language Learning

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

The proposed project, Improved Language Learning (ILL), derives from an on-going educational exchange program involving six upper secondary schools from Rogaland County Council and the Academy of Grenoble to promote the acquisition of better oral skills in French and English respectively. Since the initiation of the exchange in 2013, both parties have expressed a desire for didactic enrichment to ...
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Reducing the burden of offender mental illness in Europe: improving interorganisational collaboration between the mental health and criminal justice systems (Collaboration)

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

This fellowship enriches international research cooperation between Norway and UK with the long term goal of reducing the social and economic burden of offender mental ill health on the EU. High levels of mental illness in the offender population places financial and logistical burden on European prisons. This is attributable to professionals in mental health (MHS) and criminal justice systems (CJ ...
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The Electroweak Phase Transition Beyond the Standard Model (EWPTBSM)

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

"The observed asymmetry between matter and antimatter in the Universe is direct evidence that the Standard Model of particle physics, recently completed through the discovery of the Higgs boson, does not account for all (non-gravitational) physical phenomena. Although all the ingredients required to explain the asymmetry from fundamental interactions are present within the Standard Model, a compre ...
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Accountability For Cloud and Other Future Internet Services (A4CLOUD)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

Cloud and IT service providers should act as responsible stewards for the data of their customers and users. However the current absence of accountability frameworks for distributed IT services makes it difficult for users to understand, influence and determine how their service providers honour their obligations.A4Cloud will create solutions to support users in deciding and tracking how their dat ...
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Addictions and Lifestyles In Contemporary Europe – Reframing Addictions Project (ALICE RAP)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

ALICE RAP is a Europe wide project of 43 partner research institutions involving 107 researchers from 25 European countries providing 1000 months of a plurality of scientific endeavour to analyse the place and challenges of addictions and lifestyles to the cohesion, organization and functioning of contemporary European society. Through integrated multidisciplinary research, a wide range of factors ...
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European North Sea Energy Alliance (ENSEA)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

The European North Sea Energy Alliance (ENSEA) aims to increase the competitiveness of research-driven energy clusters through better coordination and exploitation of research. A key driver for cluster policy definition in ENSEA will be the adoption of an energy system approach by all four partner regions, focusing on how to handle the rising share of renewable energy production in the existing en ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: Oct 1, 2015,

The University of Stavanger implemented a strategy in 2013, where the benchmark for outgoing mobility is 30% of the student body admitted to degree programmes. The UiS also focuses strongly on staff mobility for the improvement of internationalization at home and facilitating new agreements and international modules. As Europe is at the core of our internationalization strategy, we highly encourag ...
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Self learning Energy Efficient builDings and open Spaces (SEEDS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

This project develops a novel Self Learning Energy Efficient builDings and open Spaces (SEEDS) Facility Management system. The system will allow buildings to maintain user comfort whilst minimising energy consumption and CO2 emissions.SEEDS will develop an open architecture suitable both for retrofitting existing buildings and open spaces and for new building design.SEEDS will be based on research ...
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"Aquaculture for Food Security, Poverty Alleviation and Nutrition" (AFSPAN)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

"Aquaculture is widely considered as important for enhancing food security, alleviating poverty and improving nutrition. However, little information is available concerning the direct and indirect impacts of aquaculture on food security and poverty alleviation in most developing countries and LIFDCs. Strengthening the knowledge base surrounding aquaculture and food and nutrition security through t ...
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Public Engagement with Research and Research Engagement with Society (PERARES)

Start date: May 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2014,

PERARES strengthens public engagement in research (PER) by developing multi-annual action plans, involving researchers and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in the formulation of research agendas and the research process. It uses debates on science to actively articulate research requests of civil society. These are forwarded to research institutes, and results are used in a next phase of the deb ...
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You, me and society - Ég, þú og samfélagið

Start date: May 1, 2014, End date: Oct 30, 2014,

We want to take the first steps and look in to our selves. We are going to do that via various exercises and processes that enable each individual to understand him/her self better as well as realise what the best version of who you are could look like! In order to improve the society we live in it needs to change, and all change starts with the individual. To be able to change we need to understa ...
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Secured Urban Transportation - European Demonstration (SECUR-ED)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

"SECUR-ED Project federates, with a delegated management and in a balanced manner, major operators and top industrial integrators to enhance the security of urban public transportation in medium and large cities, through live demonstrations.Based on the best practices, in a very diverse societal and legacy environment, SECUR-ED will aggregate a consistent and interoperable mix of technologies and ...
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Elucidating mechanisms of dopaminergic neuronal degeneration using C. elegans and high-throughput genetic approaches (NEURODOPA DEGEN)

Start date: Jul 1, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2014,

"BACKGROUND:Parkinson’s Disease, characterized by the progressive degeneration of dopaminergic neurons, afflicts millions of people. Yet, no effective therapeutic strategies are available.This work uses Caenorhabditis elegans to study dopaminergic degeneration. C. elegans is a small nematode, highly amenable to genetics and high-throughput approaches, with a simple nervous system that is highly co ...
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Low Emission Gas Turbine Technology for Hydrogen-rich Syngas (H2-IGCC)

Start date: Nov 1, 2009, End date: Apr 30, 2014,

The overall objective of this project is to provide and demonstrate technical solutions which will allow the use of state-of-the-art highly efficient, reliable gas turbines in the next generation of IGCC plants, suitable for combusting undiluted hydrogen-rich syngas derived from a pre-combustion CO2 capture process, with high fuel flexibility. The recognised challenge is to operate a stable and co ...
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Sustainable value creation in manufacturing networks (SustainValue)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2014,

The increasing demands for sustainability have created new challenges and emerging opportunities for society and for business. To be successful manufacturers must be pro-active and creative in thinking about the opportunities that the sustainable economy will present to develop new products and markets and optimize their value networks according to the new sustainability criteria.The overall goal ...
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Mastering the Value Function of Security Measures (VALUESEC)

Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: Jan 31, 2014,

"The Task of VALUESEC is defining, context modeling, weighting and quantifying attributes of costs and benefits, advantages and disadvantages of security measures, and demonstration of an application tool evaluating the different effects and the aggregated value of security measures.It will generate a knowledge base of the status and trends in theory and in practical applications of methods of eco ...
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Strategic collaboration with China on super-computing based on Tianhe-1A (SCC-Computing)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

In 2010, the TOP500 project, which ranks and details the 500 (most powerful known computer systems in the world since the year of 1993, announced that the world's most powerful computer system is Tianhe 1A in China (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOP500). This project aims at establishing a strategic collaboration with the host and developer of this computer system in China to explore a range of res ...
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Treatment of reperfusion injury using a mitochondrial targeted approach: towards a better understanding of the disease (MITOCARE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

"Current interventional treatment of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) focused on re-establishing cardiac reperfusion has significantly improved clinical outcome by reducing infarct size and mortality due to cardiac ischemia.It is now recognized that events triggered at reperfusion also result in cell death and may account for as much as 50% of the infarct volume, this being termed ischemia-reperf ...
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Quality and safety in European Union hospitals: A research-based guide for implmeenting best practice and a framework for assessing performance (QUASER)

Start date: Apr 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

"This translational study aims to design and disseminate an evidence based guide for hospitals to implement quality and safety improvement programmes, and an evidence based framework for payers to assess and monitor the quality and safety of hospitals across the EU. These outputs will be based on empirical findings from research in five partner countries. However, in addition, the development of t ...
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Proteomics of the trans-Golgi network in Arabidopsis thaliana using immunoisolation as a means of organelle purification (TGNPROTEOMICS)

Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Jul 31, 2010,

"The aim of this proposal is to identify novel proteins in the Arabidopsis thaliana trans-Golgi network (TGN). This organelle is poorly characterised, yet is known to play an important role in sorting and forward transport of proteins leaving the Golgi apparatus, but also in retrograde transport and endocytosis. The knowledge generated in this project will help understanding cellular transport in ...
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